The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists - Hardcover

William Ferris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469607549 ISBN 13: 9781469607542

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2013

Synopsis

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South. The Storied South offers a unique, intimate opportunity to sit at the table with these men and women and learn how they worked and how they perceived their art. The volume also features 45 of Ferris's striking photographic portraits of the speakers and a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the interviews. |The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South.

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Review:

Intimate and moving. . . . Undoubtedly a volume that should be included in the personal library of every Southerner or lover of the Southern storytelling tradition. When the final page of The Storied South is turned, readers will truly feel like they have been sitting on the front porch listening to the voices and stories of these legendary Southern icons.--Click Magazine

An extraordinary book that captures the very essence of life in the South--the landscape, the weather, and perhaps most important, the people, their voices and their stories.--Journal of Southern History

A valuable addition to both public and academic libraries for their Southern Culture collections. Overall the book would be of interest to the general reader, as well as the scholar of Southern Studies.--Tennessee Libraries

[Ferris's] latest book, The Storied South, was published this summer, and includes such well-known artists and thinkers as Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, William Eggleston and Alice Walker. . . . Storied includes a DVD and a CD of interviews that Ferris conducted during the past 40 years, as well as his photography.--Brooks Bulletin

An excellent, authoritative record of how William Ferris mediates and meditates on Southern exceptionalism.--Valley Voices

Compiles decades' worth of deeply personal interviews with many of the South's greatest luminaries. . . . . And thanks to an included CD and DVD, their voices leap off the page and come to life.--Garden and Gun

Southern voices heard again.--The Daily Tar Heel

[A] comprehensive collection of accounts by these foundational southern artists. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.--Choice

The Storied South bring[s] these tales to life. . . . With Ferris as a guide, readers will get a revealing look at the region before air-conditioning and chain businesses, smartphones and corporate monoliths changed it forever.--Raleigh News & Observer

An immensely important book that is passionate and keenly insightful and that is a crucial addition to the growing body of work on the South.--The Journal of Southern History

About the Author:

William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris is author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, among other books, and coeditor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1469607549
• ISBN 13: 9781469607542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288